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This Day In History. In summer Tecumseh undertook a strenuous journey west to the upper Mississippi, down the Illinois River to Peoria, to present-day Wisconsin, then to Missouri. In October he set out for Fort Amherstburg , arriving about 12 November. By now he was certain there would be war and asked for supplies. Tecumseh's efforts did not go unnoticed. William Henry Harrison wrote a tribute in "The implicit obedience and respect which the followers of Tecumseh pay to him is really astonishing, and more than any other circumstance bespeaks him one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things.
Harrison met Tecumseh at Vincennes in July Tecumseh erred by telling Harrison that he would be absent until spring. In Tecumseh's absence, Harrison moved a force near Prophetstown at the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers.
The Prophet was unable to restrain his warriors and sniping between sentries escalated into a full-scale battle. The warriors held their own but were forced to withdraw when they ran out of ammunition.
Harrison followed the retreat and entered Prophetstown, finding it deserted. His men burned the town and destroyed the food supplies. Tecumseh's absence took him some 5, kilometres and when he returned to Prophetstown he saw the grim reality of the destruction: as he told the British later, "the bodies of my friends laying in the dust, and our villages burnt to the ground, and all our kettles carried off.
It was a devastating blow to the confederacy. On 18 June the United States declared war on Britain. Tecumseh went north to find the British strengthening the defences of Fort Amherstburg and saw an impressive number of soldiers there.
Tecumseh brought about warriors from numerous tribes. General William Hull 's American forces occupied Sandwich on 12 July, but the general was fraught with doubt. On 17 July, far to the north, Captain Charles Roberts forced the surrender of Michilimackinac , which further unnerved Hull. Tecumseh organized an ambush, routing them and inflicting the first casualties suffered by Americans in the War of On 5 August, Tecumseh confronted a far more numerous force south of Brownstown, killing In another attack he surprised Van Horne, killing 20 and wounding The ambushes at Brownstown were remarkable victories and weighed heavily on Hull's fragile frame of mind.
On 9 August , soldier and future writer John Richardson met Tecumseh, whom he was the first to call the real hero of the war.
He described "that ardour of expression in his eye But Tecumseh chose the ground well and signalled the attack. Outgunned, the First Nations and British were forced to retreat and Tecumseh was wounded in the neck.
It was an American victory but, as happened so often in this war, there was no follow-up and the blockade of Detroit remained intact. These incursions against his supply lines continued to disturb General Hull. On 13 August General Isaac Brock arrived at Amherstburg and the famous meeting took place between him and the Shawnee chief. Brock's aide, Captain John Glegg , described Tecumseh "with bright eyes beaming cheerfulness, energy and decision.
On the night of 15 August, hundreds of canoes glided across the river to land near Detroit, led by Tecumseh, Roundhead and others. The British followed at daylight on the 16th, south of the town. Brock marched directly on the town while Tecumseh's men swept north through the forest. Hull had no idea how many First Nations warriors were present, but he feared thousands.
British ships shelled the fort with more psychological impact than real. Unbelievably, Hull surrendered without a shot. Hull's ignominious surrender certainly caused him and his nation grief.
Unquestionably Tecumseh's harassment of his supply lines and his fear of a savage massacre at the hands of the First Nations learned from his captured letters played a big part in his decision. It was a great victory for the allies, seen by many as the saving of Upper Canada , and a demoralizing defeat for the Americans. Tecumseh played a major role and gained the admiration of Brock, who called him the "Wellington of the Indians. It needs to be made clear, however, in this process of making Tecumseh into a Canadian hero, that he himself did not care, as one historian has put it, "a spent pistol ball" for the king or the colony of Upper Canada.
When Tecumseh returned, Prophetstown no longer existed. The natives had abandoned it, and Harrison had then destroyed it. Many of his followers, hungry and defeated, returned to their former villages. They were unwilling to assist Tecumseh in forming his confederation. Tecumseh did try to recreate his confederacy, but he had only limited success. Tecumseh's quest formally ended in , with his death at the Battle of the Thames in the War of Toggle navigation.
Jump to: navigation , search. Portrait of the Shawnee military and political leader Tecumseh, ca. He worked with his brother Tenskwatawa, known as 'The Prophet,' to unite American Indian tribes in the Northwest Territory to defend themselves against white settlers. With his remaining followers, he set out for Upper Canada.
He planned to meet the British officers and negotiate an alliance against the Americans. By continuing to expand onto their lands, repeatedly revising treaty boundaries, and finally by attacking them outright, white Americans had driven the native confederacy to ally with the British.
Explore This Park. Summer Tecumseh attempts to negotiate with white American settlers.
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